Daylily question

And it smells so good!

I've never found anything that would stop them from blooming except for planting them in deep shade and even there they try. I have a patch growing persistently in my side yard which came about from me placing some clumps there in the shade while I hacked and whacked them into smaller clumps with a machete and a yard fork. I planted the resulting clumps elsewhere. A couple of months later I found plants growing from the shreds of unplanted roots that the hacking produced. The next summer I found one of the pitiful little things budding. This is in a _very_ shady area where I am unable to grow anything besides volunteer "wild flowers" (read that as weeds) and moss. The variety of daylily involved was typical "Tennessee Ditch Lily" of no known parentage and these plants are probably tougher than the average but I think that simply dividing a plant is unlikely to do more than slow down the blooming.

Salads at our house reach their heights when the daylilies are in bloom. The bulk of the ones we eat are the common orange ones that the neighbor planted along the fence line, but my salad favorites are a couple of the fancy ones I grow: a large, deep gold, nicely scented hybrid (I think it may be 'Mary Todd') and a huge, bright red one called 'Baja.'